Lancashire

West Lancashire planning data

4,674 planning applications from West Lancashire. Ask questions about them in plain English from ChatGPT or Claude — no coding, about two minutes to set up — or pull them straight into your own software. 15 pieces of information are filled in on at least 90% of records.

4,674

Applications

Enforcement notices

624

Appeals

1988–2026

Date range

What West Lancashire decides

West Lancashire has approved 85.35% of the 3,979 applications it has decided since January 2023. Across the 225 councils with a comparable caseload the range is 71.37% to 99.14%, so this is below the middle of the pack (89.18%).

85.35%

Approved, of 3,979 decided

Median days to a decision

92.3

Average days

What it mostly decides

The mix of application types West Lancashire handles — useful for telling whether your kind of application is routine here or unusual.

Application type	Applications	Share
Full	2,220	47.5%
Tree	882	18.9%
Conditions	515	11.0%
Certificate	389	8.3%
Other	372	8.0%

How approval rates and decision times vary across the country →

What West Lancashire actually fills in

A "field" is one piece of information on an application — the decision date, the applicant's name, the address. Councils fill these in inconsistently, so this table measures how often West Lancashire actually provides each one, across all 4,674 records. Anything listed as reliable you can count on; anything lower, check the council's own record before relying on it.

Once this data is connected to ChatGPT or Claude you can just ask "what information does West Lancashire actually fill in?" and get these same numbers back. How to connect →

Reliable — 90% or more of records

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Address `address`	4,674	100.0%
Description of the works `description`	4,674	100.0%
Date received `received_date`	4,674	100.0%
Council reference `reference`	4,674	100.0%
Ward `ward`	4,674	100.0%
Application type `application_type`	4,669	99.9%
Status `status`	4,657	99.6%
Status (standardised wording) `status_normalized`	4,657	99.6%
Applicant's name `applicant_name`	4,588	98.2%
Agent's email `agent_email`	4,553	97.4%
Decision `decision`	4,293	91.8%
Decision date `decision_date`	4,293	91.8%
Agent's phone `agent_phone`	4,278	91.5%
Case officer `case_officer`	4,224	90.4%
Postcode `postcode`	4,218	90.2%

Partial — use with care

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Decision (standardised wording) `decision_normalized`	4,196	89.8%
Alternative reference `alternative_reference`	3,902	83.5%
Who decided it (officer or committee) `decision_level`	3,862	82.6%
Agent's name `agent_name`	3,846	82.3%
Agent's company `agent_company`	3,069	65.7%
Standardised type `standard_type`	549	11.7%

Rarely or never published

Information	Records with it	Coverage
Appeal decision `appeal_decision`	104	2.2%
Appeal decision (standardised wording) `appeal_decision_normalized`	104	2.2%
Type of development `development_type`	0	0.0%
Officer's recommendation `officer_recommendation`	0	0.0%

Not published by this council

West Lancashire's portal has been verified not to publish these fields at all — different from a field that exists but is rarely filled in.

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Or call it from your own code

curl -H "X-Api-Key: pk_..." \
  "https://ukplanningapi.co.uk/v1/applications?council_id=28&limit=5"

Council id for West Lancashire is 28. Full API reference for developers →

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